Dooley Noted: 9/22/2015 Some people like to watch me teach or be taught by me. The people I can reach are those who are past the place of rote memorization and just making the grade. These people are the ones wanting to be passionate about something – anything. They want more than to punch the clock but to be kicked out of the building by security because they are staying so late. … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/20/2015 This weekend, I was given the honor of speaking and attending the first ever NKT Symposium. I flew Friday night after teaching to San Diego, where I had to miss a fun dinner and cookie bake-off that bonded the NKT community. But all was redeemed on Saturday, when the seminar went full-force with general assemblies on cleaning up techniques and working with client emotional issues during sessions. Other … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/19/2015 After sitting in traffic yesterday for 1.5 hours, I managed to make it to security at JFK airport. Somehow, I got cleared for TSA Precheck. No shoes off. No computers out. And that wasn’t even the great part. The TSA employee, Jas, was making everyone crack up as they passed through. As I stepped into the scanner, he passed me through but stopped me. He … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/18/2015 I remember when my six-year relationship ended. I was in such a massive amount of pain that I’ve never been able to replicate it. During that time, my father was sitting at the kitchen counter. My mother told me that he started crying over his coffee. She asked him, “Roland, what’s wrong?” He said, “When she hurts, I hurt.” My father is a man of … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/16/2015 I’ve been sick for about a week, spending way too much time in bed, thinking. I got a lot of busy work done – and a lot of quality healing time logged. But without distraction, the mind can wander. When the mind is left wandering, sometimes it is left to fester. I found myself getting stuck on feelings and unable to meditate my way through them. I reached out to my friends, … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/15/2015 This week, I fell short again. A friend needed me. I didn’t know it. He put on a strong face. I let my selfish needs supersede his needs. He got hurt by my lack of compassion. A moment can change your world – as well as someone else’s. The tables certainly turned when I developed an upper respiratory tract infection that demanded my attention. … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/13/2015 I have the honor of lead instructing for two seminar series and instructing anatomy for five schools. I also take a highly educational approach to my patient care. I receive overwhelmingly positive feedback on my teaching abilities. But on occasion, I’ll get a few outliers that don’t prefer my methods. They’re almost always anonymous, which I suppose empowers some people to state what they feel. After all, I can’t give a rebuttal … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/12/2015 When I see people jogging for fitness, struggling with major gait disturbances, I think these things: 1. Consider sprinting, then brisk walking. You can work on gait. 2. Gait matters. What is dysfunctional now might be painful tomorrow. 3. All that energy jogging you forward could be used to build some lean mass in the weight room. That lean mass burns fuel 24/7. 4. Swinging a kettlebell will torch calories without causing … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/11/2015 As a doctor of chiropractic, I have been trained to give nutritional advice to patients. Having recovered from my own eating disorder in my early 20s, I had a decent background in how Food affects health and fitness. I had patients sending me food logs and helping them with their goals. But in the past year, I wasn’t consistently doing it for myself. I was putting work … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/9/2015 When doing pull-ups yesterday, I felt a tightness around the inside of my shoulder blade. My first instinct was to stretch my rhomboids, middle traps, and levator scapulae. These muscles surround the area where I felt tightness. They have the common action of scapular retraction. But when I watched a video of my pull-up, I noticed my shoulder was rolled forward into protraction. The aforementioned muscles were … Read more